List of near threatened birds
As of December 2020, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists 1001 near threatened avian species.[1] 9.1% of all evaluated avian species are listed as near threatened. No subpopulations of birds have been evaluated by the IUCN.
- Extinct in the wild (EW): 5 species
- Critically endangered (CR): 223 species
- Endangered (EN): 460 species
- Vulnerable (VU): 798 species
- Near threatened (NT): 1,001 species
- Least concern (LC): 8,460 species
- Data deficient (DD): 52 species
This is a complete list of near threatened avian species evaluated by the IUCN. Where possible common names for taxa are given while links point to the scientific name used by the IUCN.
Procellariiformes
Includes petrels and albatrosses.
- Sooty shearwater
- Jouanin's petrel
- Cape Verde shearwater
- Streaked shearwater
- Hornby's storm-petrel
- Markham's storm-petrel
- Swinhoe's storm petrel
- Peruvian diving-petrel
- Laysan albatross
- Black-footed albatross
- Light-mantled albatross
- Grey petrel
- Tahiti petrel
- Fea's petrel
- Mottled petrel
- Murphy's petrel
- Black-vented shearwater
- Buller's albatross
- Shy albatross
- White-capped albatross
Gruiformes
There are 18 species in the order Gruiformes assessed as near threatened.
Rallids
- Horned coot
- Santa Isabel rail
- Pink-legged rail
- Roviana rail
- Bougainville rail
- Woodford's rail
- New Guinea flightless rail
- Tsingy wood rail
- White-striped forest rail
- Andaman crake
- King rail
- Ridgway's rail
- Aztec rail
- Rouget's rail
- Band-bellied crake
Parrots
There are 61 parrot species assessed as near threatened.
Psittacids
- Fischer's lovebird
- Lilian's lovebird
- Yellow-faced parrot
- Turquoise-fronted amazon
- Northern festive Amazon
- Blue-cheeked amazon
- Mealy amazon
- Festive amazon
- Northern mealy Amazon
- Kawall's amazon
- Cuban amazon
- Jonquil parrot
- Golden-capped parakeet
- Duchess lorikeet
- Meek's lorikeet
- Striated lorikeet
- Comoro parrot
- Yellow-crowned parakeet
- Red-crowned parakeet
- Blue-streaked lory
- Blue-eared lory
- Olive-throated parakeet
- Mexican parrotlet
- Sangihe hanging parrot
- Pygmy hanging parrot
- Yellow-throated hanging parrot
- Bismarck hanging parrot
- White-naped lory
- Geelvink pygmy parrot
- Princess parrot
- Blue-winged macaw
- Yellow-breasted racket-tail
- Montane racket-tail
- Mindanao racket-tail
- Masked shining parrot
- Red-masked parakeet
- Cordilleran parakeet
- Scarlet-fronted parakeet
- Red-breasted parakeet
- Nicobar parakeet
- Lord Derby's parakeet
- Alexandrine parakeet
- Grey-headed parakeet
- Blossom-headed parakeet
- Iris lorikeet
- Simeulue parrot
- Blue-rumped parrot
- Bald parrot
- Orange-cheeked parrot
- Caica parrot
- Saffron-headed parrot
- Blaze-winged parakeet
- Blue-naped parrot
- Sunset lorikeet
- Mindanao lorikeet
- Pohnpei lorikeet
- Leaf lorikeet
- Blue-bellied parrot
Pigeons and doves
- White-throated ground dove
- Nicobar pigeon
- Whistling fruit dove
- White-naped pigeon
- Japanese wood pigeon
- Laurel pigeon
- Island bronze-naped pigeon
- Andaman wood pigeon
- Comoros olive pigeon
- Cloven-feathered dove
- Timor imperial pigeon
- Finsch's imperial pigeon
- Goliath imperial pigeon
- Enggano imperial-pigeon
- Pink-bellied imperial pigeon
- Pink-headed imperial pigeon
- Red-knobbed imperial pigeon
- Yellowish imperial pigeon
- Christmas imperial pigeon
- Luzon bleeding-heart
- Crested quail-dove
- Sclater's crowned-pigeon
- Victoria crowned pigeon
- New Zealand pigeon
- Andaman cuckoo-dove
- Tolima dove
- Plain pigeon
- White-crowned pigeon
- Grey-breasted brown-dove
- Atoll fruit dove
- White-headed fruit dove
- Blue-capped fruit dove
- Jambu fruit dove
- Sula fruit dove
- Cream-breasted fruit dove
- Pied cuckoo-dove
- Crested cuckoo-dove
- White-winged collared dove
- Buru green pigeon
- Andaman green pigeon
- Whistling green pigeon
- Cinnamon-headed green pigeon
- Sumatran green pigeon
- Ashy-headed green pigeon
- Sumba green pigeon
- Black dove
- Galapagos dove
- Russet-crowned quail-dove
Phoenicopteriformes
- Lesser flamingo
- James's flamingo
- Chilean flamingo
Pelecaniformes
("Pelican-like")
- Reddish egret
- Madagascan ibis
- Dalmatian pelican
- Spot-billed pelican
- Peruvian pelican
- Andean ibis (Theristicus branickii)
- Black-headed ibis
- Zigzag heron
- Forest bittern
Galliformes
There are 43 species in the order Galliformes assessed as near threatened.
Cracids
- Wattled guan
- Yellow-knobbed curassow
- Bearded guan
- Crestless curassow
- Greater prairie-chicken
- White-throated piping-guan (Pipile grayi)
Phasianids
- Rock partridge
- Red-legged partridge
- Snow Mountains quail
- White-cheeked partridge
- Orange-necked partridge
- White-necklaced partridge
- Chinese grouse
- Ferruginous partridge
- Greater sage-grouse
- Japanese quail
- White eared pheasant
- Tibetan eared pheasant
- Siberian grouse
- Salvadori's pheasant
- Malay crested fireback
- Swinhoe's pheasant
- Caucasian grouse
- Ocellated turkey
- Germain's peacock-pheasant
- Long-billed partridge
- Crested partridge
- Scleroptila elgonensis
- Moorland francolin
- Ring-necked francolin
- Elliot's pheasant
- Mrs. Hume's pheasant
- Mikado pheasant
- Copper pheasant
- Satyr tragopan
New World quails
- Northern bobwhite
- Spot-breasted quail (Cyrtonyx sallei)
- Venezuelan wood quail
- Marbled wood quail
- Rufous-breasted wood quail
Struthioniformes
- Little spotted kiwi
- Yellow-legged tinamou
- Pale-browed tinamou
- Greater rhea
- Puna rhea (Rhea tarapacensis)
- White-throated tinamou
- Great tinamou
- Solitary tinamou
Bucerotiformes
Includes hornbills, hoopoe and wood hoopoes.
Accipitriformes
Accipitrids
- Rufous-necked sparrowhawk
- White-bellied goshawk
- Moluccan goshawk
- Madagascan sparrowhawk
- Dwarf sparrowhawk
- Grey-bellied hawk
- Cinereous vulture
- Gurney's eagle
- Mountain buzzard
- Hawaiian hawk
- Rufous crab hawk
- Cuban black hawk
- Solitary eagle
- Southern banded snake eagle
- Pallid harrier
- Plumbeous hawk
- Letter-winged kite
- Red goshawk
- Bearded vulture
- Himalayan vulture
- Harpy eagle
- Lesser fish eagle
- Grey-headed fish eagle
- Doria's goshawk
- Crested eagle
- Mantled hawk
- Andaman serpent eagle
- Great Nicobar serpent eagle
- Ornate hawk-eagle
- Crowned eagle
Anseriformes
("Goose-like")
- Brown teal
- Sunda teal
- Emperor goose
- Ferruginous duck
- Northern screamer
- West Indian whistling-duck
- Falcated duck
- Black scoter
- Orinoco goose
- Blue-billed duck
- Maccoa duck
- Common eider
- Bronze-winged duck
Owls
Strigidae
- Chestnut-backed owlet
- Tamaulipas pygmy owl
- Colombian screech owl
- Cloud-forest screech owl
- Togian boobook
- Guadalcanal boobook
- Ochre-bellied boobook
- Chocolate boobook
- Sumba boobook
- Mindanao hawk owl
- Nicobar scops owl
- Ryūkyū scops owl
- Enggano scops owl
- Palawan scops owl
- Rinjani scops owl
- Luzon scops owl
- Mantanani scops owl
- Mentawai scops owl
- Mindoro scops owl
- Mindanao scops owl
- Reddish scops owl
- Sula scops owl
- Simeulue scops owl
- Chaco owl
- Rusty-barred owl
- Spotted owl
Charadriiformes
There are 51 species in the order Charadriiformes assessed as near threatened.
Sandpipers
- Red knot
- Curlew sandpiper
- Semipalmated sandpiper
- Red-necked stint
- Buff-breasted sandpiper
- Subantarctic snipe
- Snares snipe
- Imperial snipe
- Great snipe
- Noble snipe
- Fuegian snipe
- Asian dowitcher
- Bar-tailed godwit
- Black-tailed godwit
- Eurasian curlew
- Bristle-thighed curlew
- Sulawesi woodcock
- Javan woodcock
- Grey-tailed tattler
Charadriids
- Northern red-breasted plover
- Double-banded plover
- Javan plover
- Piping plover
- Mountain plover
- Snowy plover
- Chestnut-banded plover
- Malaysian plover
- Diademed plover
- River lapwing
- Northern lapwing
Other Charadriiformes species
- Razorbill
- Kittlitz's murrelet
- Long-billed murrelet
- Beach stone-curlew
- Great stone-curlew
- Black-winged pratincole
- Eurasian oystercatcher
- Magellanic plover
- Cassin's auklet
- Black-breasted buttonquail
Coraciiformes
Coraciiformes includes kingfishers and bee-eaters. There are 28 species in the order Coraciiformes assessed as near threatened.
Alcedinidae
- Black-headed kingfisher
- Rufous-collared kingfisher
- Green-backed kingfisher
- Scaly-breasted kingfisher
- Blyth's kingfisher
- Malay blue-banded kingfisher
- Southern silvery kingfisher
- Buru dwarf kingfisher
- Manus dwarf kingfisher
- Sulawesi dwarf kingfisher
- Northern silvery kingfisher
- Makira dwarf kingfisher
- Southern indigo-banded kingfisher
- Sula dwarf kingfisher
- Sangihe lilac kingfisher
- Brown-winged kingfisher
- Numfor paradise kingfisher
- Biak paradise kingfisher
- White-mantled kingfisher
- Cinnamon-banded kingfisher
- Talaud kingfisher
- Vanuatu kingfisher
- Lazuli kingfisher
- Rusty-capped kingfisher
- Chattering kingfisher
- Moorea kingfisher
Other Coraciiformes species
- Rufous-headed ground roller
- Azure dollarbird
- Blue-moustached bee-eater
Passerines
There are 466 passerine species assessed as near threatened.
Vireos
- Black-capped vireo
- Bell's vireo
- Noronha vireo
- Choco vireo
- Blue Mountain vireo
Monarch flycatchers
- Rennell shrikebill
- Black-throated shrikebill
- Short-crested monarch
- Silktail
- Versicolored monarch
- Solomons monarch
- Kolombangara monarch
- Yap monarch
- Manus monarch
- White-tailed monarch
- Mussau monarch
- Samoan flycatcher
- Biak black flycatcher
- Makira flycatcher
- Japanese paradise flycatcher
- Bedford's paradise flycatcher
Pittas
- Giant pitta
- Sula pitta
- Garnet pitta
- Malayan banded pitta
- Whiskered pitta
- Mangrove pitta
- Black-headed pitta
Formicariids
- Rufous-fronted antthrush
- Chestnut antpitta
- Watkins's antpitta
- Ochre-breasted antpitta
- Scallop-breasted antpitta
- Peruvian antpitta
- White-browed antpitta
- Rufous-crowned antpitta
White-eyes
- Bonin white-eye
- Spot-breasted heleia
- Giant white-eye
- Long-billed white-eye
- Sanford's white-eye
- Javan white-eye
- Pearl-bellied white-eye
- Plain white-eye
- Ambon white-eye
- Tagula white-eye
- Biak white-eye
- Christmas white-eye
- Olive-colored white-eye
- Togian white-eye
- Slender-billed white-eye
- Golden-bellied white-eye
- Vella Lavella white-eye
Thrushes
- Rusty-bellied shortwing
- Sulawesi mountain-thrush
- Cuban solitaire
- Brown-winged whistling thrush
- Malayan whistling thrush
- Tristan thrush
- Unicoloured thrush
- Redwing
- Forest thrush
- Crossley's ground thrush
- Chestnut-backed thrush
- Buru thrush
- Red-backed thrush
- Everett's thrush
- Sri Lanka thrush
- Seram thrush
- Enggano thrush
- Fawn-breasted thrush
- White-bellied thrush
- Red-and-black thrush
- Oberländer's ground thrush
- Orange-sided thrush
- Slaty-backed thrush
- Spot-winged thrush
- Black-backed thrush
Tapaculos
- White-breasted tapaculo
- Marañón crescentchest
- Slaty bristlefront
- Spotted bamboowren
Antbirds
- Rio de Janeiro antbird
- Bananal antbird
- Ochre-rumped antbird
- Spot-breasted antvireo
- Parana antwren
- Sincorá antwren
- Narrow-billed antwren
- Creamy-bellied antwren
- Magdalena antbird
- Wing-banded antbird
- Brown-bellied antwren
- Klages's antwren
- Unicolored antwren
- White-masked antbird
- White-breasted antbird
- Castelnau's antshrike
- Blackish-grey antshrike
- Cocha antshrike
- Spiny-faced antshrike
Ovenbirds
- White-browed foliage-gleaner
- Berlepsch's canastero
- Maquis canastero
- Hudson's canastero
- Cipo canastero
- Line-fronted canastero
- Santa Marta foliage-gleaner
- Long-tailed cinclodes
- Canebrake groundcreeper
- Henna-hooded foliage-gleaner
- Araucaria tit-spinetail
- Tawny tit-spinetail
- Straight-billed reedhaunter
- Beautiful treerunner
- Star-chested treerunner
- Chestnut-backed thornbird
- Grey-throated leaftosser
- Peruvian recurvebill
- Bay-capped wren-spinetail
- Río Orinoco spinetail
- Cabanis's spinetail
- Chestnut-throated spinetail
- Dusky spinetail
- Equatorial greytail
Sylviids
- Cook reed warbler
- Rodrigues warbler
- Seychelles warbler
- Grey-crowned tetraka
- Bangwa forest warbler
- Ja River scrub warbler
- Long-billed bush warbler
- Sri Lanka bush warbler
- Timor bush warbler
- Tanimbar bush warbler
- Bougainville bush warbler
- Madagascan yellowbrow
- Indian grassbird
- Marsh grassbird
- Bougainville thicketbird
- Melanesian thicketbird
- Yellow-breasted tailorbird
- Tytler's leaf warbler
- White-tailed warbler
- Dartford warbler
Emberizids
- Olive finch
- São Francisco sparrow
- Yellow-headed brush finch
- Dusky-headed brush finch
- Rufous-eared brush finch
- Vilcabamba brush finch
- Coal-crested finch
- Cinereous bunting
- Tibetan bunting
- Japanese reed bunting
- Duida grass finch
- Little Inca finch
- Rose-bellied bunting
- Bachman's sparrow
- Cinnamon-tailed sparrow
- Blue finch
- Rufous-rumped seedeater
- Black-bellied seedeater
- Dark-throated seedeater
- Slender-billed finch
Old World babblers
- Black-crowned barwing
- Brown fulvetta
- Tibetan babax
- Giant babax
- Spotted crocias
- Vietnamese cutia
- Cambodian laughingthrush
- Chestnut-backed laughingthrush
- Taiwan hwamei
- Rufous-winged illadopsis
- Short-tailed scimitar babbler
- Striped wren-babbler
- Chapin's babbler
- Red-collared babbler
- Fluffy-backed tit-babbler
- Short-tailed babbler
- Sooty-capped babbler
- Grey-breasted babbler
- Rufous-crowned babbler
- Melodious babbler
- Wedge-tailed jery
- Reed parrotbill
- Black-headed parrotbill
- Grey-banded babbler
- Rufous-throated wren-babbler
- Sikkim wedge-billed babbler
- Cachar wedge-billed babbler
- Golden-crowned babbler
- White-breasted babbler
- Palawan striped babbler
- Panay striped babbler
- White-necked babbler
- Chestnut-rumped babbler
- Black-throated babbler
- Mindanao pygmy babbler
- Visayan pygmy babbler
- Luzon striped babbler
- Kerala laughingthrush
- Sumatran babbler
- White-chested babbler
- Black-throated wren-babbler
- Large wren-babbler
- Orange-billed babbler
Old World flycatchers
- Palawan blue flycatcher
- Malaysian blue flycatcher
- Chestnut-naped forktail
- Ryukyu robin
- Dull-blue flycatcher
- Furtive flycatcher
- Rufous-chested flycatcher
- Damar flycatcher
- Rufous-throated flycatcher
- Black-banded flycatcher
- Firethroat
- Sumba brown flycatcher
- Maroon-breasted philentoma
- Przevalski's redstart
- Luzon water-tyrant
- Streak-breasted jungle flycatcher
- Henna-tailed jungle flycatcher
- Slaty-backed jungle flycatcher
- Grey-chested jungle flycatcher
- Canary Islands stonechat
- White-bellied bush chat
- East coast akalat
- Rufous-tailed shama
Bird-of-paradise species
Bulbuls
- Brown-cheeked bulbul
- Finsch's bulbul
- Cameroon greenbul
- Green-tailed bristlebill
- Hypsipetes nicobariensis
- Buff-vented bulbul
- Streaked bulbul
- Zamboanga bulbul
- Grey-headed greenbul
- Grey-bellied bulbul
- Puff-backed bulbul
- Black-and-white bulbul
- Yellow-eared bulbul
- Grey-headed bulbul
- Scaly-breasted bulbul
- Spot-necked bulbul
Tanagers
- Blue-and-gold tanager
- Multicolored tanager
- Bicolored conebill
- Black-and-white tanager
- Black-legged dacnis
- Chestnut-bellied flowerpiercer
- Green-chinned euphonia
- Parodi's hemispingus
- Grey-capped hemispingus
- Purplish-mantled tanager
- Shrike-like tanager
- Brown tanager
- Giant conebill
- Grey-crowned tanager
- Slaty-backed hemispingus
- Green-naped tanager
- Blue-whiskered tanager
- Green-capped tanager
- Azure-shouldered tanager
- Grand Cayman bullfinch
Tyrant flycatchers
- Juan Fernández tit-tyrant
- Black-billed flycatcher
- Olive-sided flycatcher
- Rufous-sided pygmy tyrant
- Eye-ringed tody-tyrant
- Buff-throated tody-tyrant
- Inca flycatcher
- Orange-banded flycatcher
- Grey-capped tyrannulet
- Southern bristle tyrant
- Ecuadorian tyrannulet
- Oustalet's tyrannulet
- São Paulo tyrannulet
- Bay-ringed tyrannulet
- Venezuelan bristle tyrant
- Black-capped piprites
- Bearded tachuri
- Dinelli's doradito
- Chapada flycatcher
- Maracaibo tody-flycatcher
- Tumbes tyrant
- Belted flycatcher
- Salinas monjita
Cardinals
- Blackish-blue seedeater
- Sooty ant tanager
- Red-and-black grosbeak
Sunbirds
- Lina's sunbird
- Plain-backed sunbird
- Red-throated sunbird
- Moreau's sunbird
- Neergaard's sunbird
- Ursula's sunbird
Other passerine species
- Green iora
- Black grasswren
- Short-tailed grasswren
- South Georgia pipit
- Meadow pipit
- Chestnut-breasted whiteface
- Archbold's bowerbird
- Japanese waxwing
- Selva cacique
- Hose's broadbill
- Green broadbill
- Lesser green leafbird
- Blue-masked leafbird
- Socotra cisticola
- Tagula butcherbird
- Long-tailed woodcreeper
- Zimmer's woodcreeper
- Aldabra drongo
- Paradise drongo
- Sumatran drongo
- Greater scythebill
- Turner's eremomela
- Rail-babbler
- Black-and-yellow broadbill
- Norfolk gerygone
- Olivaceous greenlet
- Philippine fairy-bluebird
- Papyrus gonolek
- Mountain shrike
- Blue-rumped manakin
- Yellow-breasted satinbird
- Abyssinian longclaw
- Lagden's bushshrike
- Monteiro's bushshrike
- Black catbird
- Gilliard's melidectes
- Cabani's ground sparrow
- Albert's lyrebird
- Golden-bellied flyrobin
- San cristobal mockingbird
- Mekong wagtail
- Red-vested myzomela
- Black oriole
- Dark-throated oriole
- Tongan whistler
- Palawan tit
- Yellow tit
- White-fronted tit
- Flame robin
- Brass's friarbird
- Schlegel's asity
- South Island saddleback
- White-bellied pitohui
- Bornean bristlehead
- White-fronted wattle-eye
- Banded yellow robin
- Creamy-bellied gnatcatcher
- Rufous-vented prinia
- Grey-crested helmetshrike
- Pervian martin
- Arabian accentor
- Fire-maned bowerbird
- Yellow-billed nuthatch
- Yunnan nuthatch
- Sclater's lark
- Pollen's vanga
Caprimulgiformes
There are 36 species in the order Caprimulgiformes assessed as near threatened.
Hummingbirds
- Chestnut-bellied hummingbird
- Hooded visorbearer
- White-tailed sabrewing
- Napo sabrewing
- Tres Marias hummingbird
- Wire-crested thorntail
- Mexican sheartail
- Coppery-bellied puffleg
- Black-thighed puffleg
- Pirre hummingbird
- Hoary puffleg
- Festive coquette
- Bee hummingbird
- Wedge-tailed hillstar
- Koepcke's hermit
- Peruvian piedtail
- Saw-billed hermit
- Rufous hummingbird
Cuckoos
- Bornean ground cuckoo
- Biak coucal
- Rufous coucal
- Violaceous coucal
- Bahama lizard-cuckoo
- Moustached hawk-cuckoo
- Black-bellied malkoha
- Chestnut-bellied malkoha
Piciformes
There are 46 species in the order Piciformes assessed as near threatened.
Toucans
- Grey-breasted mountain toucan
- Plate-billed mountain toucan
- Three-toed jacamar
- Saffron toucanet
- Western red-necked araçari
- Black-mandibled toucan
Woodpeckers
- Guayaquil woodpecker
- Splendid woodpecker
- Knysna woodpecker
- Ringed woodpecker
- Chrysophlegma humii
- Chequer-throated yellownape
- Amami woodpecker
- Stierling's woodpecker
- Spot-throated flameback
- Olive-backed woodpecker
- Black-bodied woodpecker
- Red-cockaded woodpecker
- Buff-necked woodpecker
- Northern sooty woodpecker
- Yellow-browed woodpecker
- Tawny piculet
- Mottled piculet
- Sumatran woodpecker
- Red-collared woodpecker
- Chocó woodpecker
Megalaimids
- Sooty barbet
- Yellow-crowned barbet
- Black-banded barbet
- Red-throated barbet
- Red-crowned barbet
Other Piciformes species
Other bird species
- Asian woolyneck
- Black-necked stork
- Yellow-billed loon
- Black-necked crane
- Painted stork
- Northern silvery grebe
- New Zealand grebe
- Fischer's turaco
See also
References
- "IUCN Red List version 2019-3". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). Retrieved 8 September 2016.